Archive - 2013

August 1, 2013

NARRAGANSETTâRun! Run! Run!
It was a simple message West Warwick coach Richard Grenier had for his players Wednesday as the Wizards ran, ran, ran past Narragansett for a 57-30 victory in the opening round of the Narragansett Summer League playoffs.
âOur game at West Warwick for as long Iâve been there is to just push the tempo and run as fast we can up the floor,â Grenier said. âWeâve done a very good job of that. Weâve been very consistent with our fast break and weâve been very unselfish the entire summer.â

August 1, 2013

NARRAGANSETT â Sometimes a team wins in such a dominating fashion that it is hard to put into words. Wednesday night may just have been one of those games for the South Kingstown boys basketball team as it put a 53-37 hurting on Narragansett in the opening round of summer league playoffs at Christofaro Park.
âThey got after it on defense. They followed the game plan and were right on defensively,â said Jeff Wosencroft, assistant coach with the Rebelsâ varsity team during the winter, currently helping with the summer program. âGuys looked like they were having fun out there.

July 31, 2013

BRISTOL â In spite of his team mashing their way to a District 3 championship, winning three of their four games in that tournament by double digits, Wickford 11-Year Old All-Stars manager Joe Walsh left the field the night of the district title match saying it would be his teamâs pitching and defense that would lead them to a state title.
âCame true,â Walsh said of his prediction on Monday. âToday was one of those days.â

July 31, 2013

NORTH KINGSTOWN â After having to comeback and win game two of a doubleheader just one day prior to force the rubber match, J2 Design Team Sharks found themselves needing another comeback on Monday in game three of their preliminary round series of the Senior American Legion State Tournament against East Bay-Riverside Post 10 to keep their playoff run alive.
Unfortunately, the Sharks were not as lucky this time, falling behind early and eventually dropping a 7-4 decision to Post 10 at Lischio Field.

July 31, 2013

WEST WARWICK â Matt Laferriere personifies everything West Warwick Post Two coach John Parente wants his program to be.
The CCRI righty wasnât feeling well in the first game of his squadâs best-of-three opening round series with Cranstonâs Gershkoff-Auburn Post 20, but the former Coventry Oaker grinded into the eighth inning to give his team a chance to win the game.

July 31, 2013

WEST WARWICK â Post Two's American Legion playoff run ended just six hours after it started.
After dropping the opening game in their best-of-three series with No. 9 Gershkoff-Auburn Post 20, No. 8 West Warwick scored the opening run in the second half of the doubleheader but wound up dropping a 7-4 decision to lose the series 2-0.
âWe played probably our two crispest games defensively in a long time,â West Warwick coach John Parente said. âWe got good innings out of both of our starting pithcers. We played two errorless games and we showed a lot of mental toughenss.

July 31, 2013

NEWPORTâPlaying from behind is never a recipe for success.
Ocean State found that out first hand Tuesday night at Cardines Field as the Newport Gulls hung five on the scoreboard in the second inning and never looked back en route to a 14-3 victory.
âWeâve had trouble scoring runs the last couple games,â Waves manager Rian McCarthy said. âWhen they get ahead early like that thereâs really nothing else we can do.